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the Covenant of Promise, and have no respect to the Covenant. It is misery enough, that God hath no respect to you: no respect to your person nor prayers, as it is said. To Cain and his offering God had no respect, Gen. iv. 5. So God hath no respect either to your persons or performances; they are an abomination to him. Your prayers to him are but like the howlings of a dog, if you have never taken hold of his Covenant, nor seen the respect that God hath to the Covenant. You have no respect to God while you have no respect to that which he respects so highly. And as he hath no respect to your persons or performances he had no respect to your tears, they never flowed from faith's views of a pierced Christ. He hath no respect to your souls, the redemption thereof ceaseth for ever, because you have no due repect to the Redeemer's blood and righteousness. He hath no, respect to your communicating; nay, he disapproves of it, and discharges you to sit down at his table, on peril of eating and drinking our damnation. God hath no regard nor respect to your salvation, because you have no regard nor respect to the Saviour he hath provided, and offered God thinks, as little to damn you, as you think little to dishonour him. God thinks as little of you as you think little of sin, and he hath as little respect to you, as you have to Christ and to the Covenant. Woe to you if you remain in this case; for the day is coming, wherein God will, before all the world, shew no mere respect to you, than to say to you, "Depart from me, ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels!" But,
